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LIST OF PARTICIPANTS BIOGRAPHIES WOMEN OPERA MAKERS WORKSHOP JUNE 29 — JULY 3, 2020 WOMEN OPERA MAKERS WORKSHOP

The Académie du Festival d’Aix has adapted and developed new online training programs in order to continue to carry out its mission of training and accompanying young musicians in their professional development. Country borders currently pose a challenge to an artist’s mobility and so it becomes important to create new work spaces and meeting places which allow for the preservation of the vital links and intercultural dialogue at the heart of these programs. The training programs were created through a process of reflection and ongoing exchange with the artists and pedagogical experts who were initially involved in training sessions that were scheduled to take place in Aix during the 2020 edition of the Festival d’Aix. Through these newly adapted programs, the Académie du Festival d’Aix continues to defend its values which include artistic excellence, innovation, the expression of cultural diversity, and activities which promote social inclusion. MENTOR PARTICIPANTS For the fifth year in a row, the Académie du Festival d’Aix is running an empowerment programme for female opera creators – composers, authors, stage directors and KATIE MITCHELL CHRIS BUSH — PLAYWRIGHT conductors – in the middle of their careers. This 5-day programme is led by the stage STAGE DIRECTOR VIOLETA CRUZ — COMPOSER director Katie Mitchell and aims to offer tools, support and advice for women working in PENDA DIOUF — PLAYWRIGHT the opera industry, in order to help them grow stronger in their art, improve their ability BEATRIZ FERNÁNDEZ AUCEJO to communicate this art, and develop the skills needed to navigate a male-dominated — CONDUCTOR profession. This year the workshop will take place online. Female creators will have the SAMANTHA FERNANDO * — COMPOSER opportunity to e-meet artists and professionals, such as the conductor Susanna Mälkki STACY HARDY — PLAYWRIGHT and the playwright Sofi Oksanen, two of the artists at the heart of the creation of the ANNA HIMALI HOWARD — STAGE opera Innocence, which was initially scheduled to have its world premiere at the 2020 DIRECTOR edition of the Festival d’Aix but has now been deferred to a later date. DANIELA KERCK — STAGE DIRECTOR CARMEN C. KRUSE — STAGE DIRECTOR This workshop is supported by SACD. PATRICIA MARTINEZ — COMPOSER NATALIE MURRAY BEALE — CONDUCTOR This Women Opera Makers workshop is an workshop. SILVINA PERUGLIA — CONDUCTOR enoa (European Network of Opera Academies), which was founded by the Festival d’Aix HELENA RÖHR — STAGE DIRECTOR and its Académie, was born in 2009 from the wish of a number of operatic institutions to SITA THOMAS — STAGE DIRECTOR work more closely together to support the professional integration of the young artists and to support the development of their artistic ambitions. With the backing of Creative Europe programme, enoa has been working to provide young artists with a first-rate training pathway using contemporary, multidisciplinary approach to opera; to give them experience of performing and of the creative process; and to support the development and dissemination of new operatic works which contribute to diversifying audiences. Thirteen members, over a thousand young artists and some three hundred professionals make up the enoa community.

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european-network-of-opera-academies * Participant supported by institutions members of enoa network: www.enoa-community.com 3 Snape Maltings – Aldeburg MENTOR PARTICIPANT KATIE MITCHELL CHRIS BUSH STAGE DIRECTOR PLAYWRIGHT UNITED KINGDOM

After studying literature, British artist Katie Mitchell began her career as an Chris Bush is an award-winning playwright, lyricist and theatre-maker. Her recent assistant in theatres, including the Royal Shakespeare Company. That’s where she productions include Fautus: That Damned Woman (Headlong/Lyric Hammersmith), The directed, upon returning in 1996 from a cycle of residences in Eastern European Last Noël (Attic Theatre/United Kingdom tour), The Assassination of Katie Hopkins (Theatr (and particularly Polish) theatres, ’s The Phoenician Women, which was Clwyd, UK Theatre Award winner 2018), Pericles (Olivier Theatre - National Theatre), Steel enthusiastically received. Her company, Classics on a shoestring, then started (Sheffield Theatres), The Changing Room (Connections Festival - National Theatre) and creating ever more successful and acclaimed shows, reimagining classics from Scenes from the End of the World (Yard/Central School). Other plays include A Declaration Greece, Britain, Scandinavia and Russia and giving them new life through her sense From the People (National Theatre); A Dream, The Sheffield Mysteries, Dickensian, Goodwill of rhythm and use of music, dance and video in her directions. Working with the to All Men, We’re All in This Together and 20 Tiny Plays About Sheffield (all Sheffield most prestigious British and German theatres, Katie Mitchell has also led projects Theatres), Larksong (New Vic, Stoke-on-Trent); Cards on the Table (Royal Exchange for television or the opera and experimented with innovative forms, adapting novels Manchester); Tony! The Blair Musical (York Theatre Royal); Sleight & Hand (Edinburgh for the theatre and collaborating with her contemporaries such as the writer Martin Fringe/BBC Arts and live-screened into cinemas); Poking the Bear (Theatre503); The Crimp or the scientist Stephen Emmott, with whom she created Ten Billion in 2012. Bureau of Lost Things (Theatre503/Rose Bruford); Odd (Perfect Pitch/Royal & Derngate Katie Mitchell has been an Associate Director at the RSC, National Theatre and Northampton) and Wolf (National Theatre Studio). She has won awards at the UK Theatre The . She was awarded an OBE in 2009 for services to drama Awards two years in a row, the National Young Playwrights’ Festival, Perfect Pitch, Sunday and has recently been appointed as the Visiting Chair in Opera Studies at Oxford Times Edinburgh Competition, and a Brit Writers’ Award. Her acclaimed musical Standing University for 2016-2017. at the Sky’s Edge transfers from Sheffield to the National Theatre in 2021. Recent theatre includes: Anatomy of a Suicide (Royal Court); 4.48 Psychosis (Schauspielhaus, Hamburg); The Maids (Toneelgroep, Amsterdam); Shadows (Eurydice Speaks) (Schaubühne, Berlin); Cleansed (National Theatre); Ophelia’s Room (Schaubühne, Berlin and Royal Court); Reisende auf einem Bein (Schauspielhaus, Hamburg); (Schauspielhaus, Hamburg); Brandstichter Festival: a remounting of five previous productions of Katie Mitchell’s work (Stadschouwburg, Amsterdam); 2071 (Royal Court); (); The Forbidden Zone ( and Schaubühne, Berlin); A Sorrow Beyond Dreams (Vienna ); Lungs, The Yellow Wallpaper (Schaubühne, Berlin); Everything Else You Know from the Movies (Schauspielhaus, Hamburg); Say it with Flowers, The Trial of Ubu (); Night Train (Schauspiel, Cologne, Avignon Festival and Theater Treffen), Ten Billion (Royal Court, Avignon Festival); Rings of Saturn, Waves (Schauspiel, Cologne), Hansel & Gretel, A Woman Killed with Kindness (National Theatre), De Meiden (Avignon Festival). Recent opera includes: Ariadne auf Naxos et Pelléas et Mélisande (Festival d’Aix- en-Provence); Lucia di Lammermoor (Covent Garden); (Festival d’Aix-en- Provence); The Way Back Home (ENO/Young Vic); Trauernacht and The House Taken Over (Festival d’Aix-en-Provence); Le Vin herbé (Staatsoper, Berlin); (Festival d’Aix-en-Provence and Covent Garden); Al gran sole carico d’amore (Staatsoper, Berlin and Salzburg Festival); Orest () and Clemency (Covent Garden). Film and television includes: Untitled Short Film (Warp/ Film4); The Widowing of Mrs Holroyd, Jenůfa, Rough for Theatre 2 and The Turn of the Screw.

4 5 PARTICIPANT PARTICIPANT VIOLETA CRUZ PENDA DIOUF COMPOSER PLAYWRIGHT SENEGAL

Born in Colombia, Violeta Cruz studied at Javeriana University in Bogota, then at the Penda Diouf is a theater author and has directed during 10 years four libraries in Saint-Denis Conservatoire national de musique et de danse de Paris and at the IRCAM in . In in France. She is also co-founder, with Anthony Thibault, of the label Jeunes Textes en 2016, she is laureate at the Villa Medici: French Academy in Rome. She won prizes such as Liberté, an itinerant theater festival which promotes the authors of contemporary theater the National Composition Prize of Colombia - Young Composers and the Francis and Mica and tries to fill the gaps in terms of representation and narration. She is an associate artist Salabert Foundation Prize. She was also finalist in the Contemporary Talents competition of at the Centre dramatique national de Valence under the direction of Marc Lainé. Her play La the François Schneider Foundation in 2018. Grande Ourse is published by Quartett éditions. Her play Pistes… staged by Aristide Tarnagda Her work includes instrumental, vocal, electroacoustic pieces and “sound objects”, will be on tour in 2020-2021 in Germany, in France at CDN de Valence and at MC93 as part mechanical machines with partially random rhythmic behavior that provide a visual, scenic of the Festival d’Automne. It will be published on January 2021. She is also president of the or even tactile counterpoint to the abstract world of sounds. Her proposals question the association Scènes appartagées which promotes theater readings in a family context. She relationships between sound and matter, focusing particularly on elementary matters such leads writing workshops too. as water and light. In her pieces, she brings together concrete and figurative elements of popular culture, with abstract elements of music of written tradition. In 2016, she received a commission from the Accentus Choir to write Pli, a participatory piece for mixed choir and children’s choir, premiered at the Opéra de Rouen. Her opera The Princess Light, commissioned by the Opéra Comique and the IRCAM, staged by Jos Houben and Emily Wilson, was premiered in December 2017 at the Opéra de Lille. In 2019, she collaborated with the ensemble L’instant donné for the recording of her piece Rien n’était encore réel, commissioned by Radio France. Also in 2019, her orchestral piece Stabat Mater Furiosa, based on the homonymous poem by Jean-Pierre Siméon, is created by the Geneva Camerata and Sophie Marceau at the Batîment des Forces Motrices de Genève. Since 2016, she has participated in regional artistic projects in France and Colombia, in particular with the DEMOS project, Batuta foundation, Ars Nova Ensemble and Accentus choir. Her next creations include collaborations with the Musicatreize ensemble in Marseille, Lovemusic in Strasbourg, Almaviva ensemble and La Sirène harmony orchestra in Paris and the Chamber Music Festival of the Duisburg Philharmonic Orchestra in Germany.

6 7 PARTICIPANT PARTICIPANT BEATRIZ FERNÁNDEZ AUCEJO SAMANTHA FERNANDO CONDUCTOR COMPOSER UNITED KINGDOM

Born in 1983 in Paiporta (Valencia-Spain), Beatriz Fernández Aucejo studied clarinet at the Superior Music Conservatory “Joaquín Rodrigo” in Valencia (Spain) and graduated a Bachelor of Music Education from the University “Ausiàs March” of Valencia (Spain). She also studied piano at the Professional Music Conservatory in Torrent (Spain) and Samantha Fernando (born 1984) is a British composer. Resonance and harmonic graduated in Wind Orchestral from the Royal School of Music of London colour play a vital role in her music. This preoccupation yields pieces with an intensely (LRSM) and in Orchestral Conducting for the Superior Music Conservatory “Manuel colourful and often meditative quality. Other art-forms are a constant source of Masotti Little” in Murcia (Spain). She studied with teachers such as Cristóbal Soler, José inspiration which have prompted collaborations with writers, directors, choreographers Miguel Rodilla, Ferrer Ferran, Ernesto Izquierdo, Manuel Galduf, Jose Maria Cervera and performers. She has worked with numerous ensembles including the Philharmonia Collado, Bruno Aprea, Peter Gülke, YaronTraub, Joshard Daus, George Pehlivanian, Orchestra, Riot Ensemble, the choir of Selwyn College Cambridge, LOD Muziektheater Rodolfo Saglimbeni and Michael Tabachnick at the Chigiana Academy (Siena) and she (Ghent), Silbersee Vocal Ensemble (Amsterdam) and The London Sinfonietta. Her is currently studying with Arturo Tamayo at the Conservatoire della Svizzera Italiana music has been performed at festivals such as Aldeburgh Music, Huddersfield in Lugano (Switzerland). She obtained the awards of four “Honorable Mentions” in the Contemporary Music Festival, Sounds New, Gaudeamus Muziekweek, York Late different competitions in which he has participated. She received several awards for Music, Lake District Summer Music and The Oxford Lieder Festival. In 2013, she was her professionalism such as the Isabel Ferrer Prize of the Generalitat Valenciana, One of awarded an RPS Composition Prize and was commissioned to write a new work for First Award for the Failure Federation of the City of Valencia or the Equality Award for the the Philharmonia Orchestra as part of the Music of Today series. Her music has been newspaper Here of the Region of L’Horta Sud. broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and her flute piece Kinesphere was released on NMC. Last She has directed several national and international orchestras, such as Deutsche year she was commissioned to write a new work celebrating the 50th birthday of the Kammerakademie Neuss am Rhein, Orquesta de la Comunidad Valenciana, Orquesta London Sinfonietta, premiered at the Royal Festival Hall in January 2018 and conducted de Valencia, Orquesta Simfònica de Barcelona I Nacional de Catalunya OBC, by Vladimir Jurowski. In June 2018, her music was showcased in a portrait concert Orquesta Sinfónica Región de Murcia ÖSRM, Mendelssohn Symphonia Orchestra at Kettle’s Yard Cambridge. In 2019, her work Formations was choreographed by and EuropaChorAkademie, Orquesta del Festival Internacional de Música de Cancún, Kristen McNally and performed by the Royal Ballet in a showcase of new dance at the Orquesta Sinfónica Juventudes Musicales de Calahorra, Orchestra del Conservatorio Linbury Theatre, ROH. Breathing Space for symphony orchestra was premiered by the Cherubini di Firenze, Orquesta de la FSMCV, Joven Orquesta de la Generalitat Valenciana, Philharmonia Orchestra in Spring 2019 conducted by Martyn Brabbins. Joven Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia, Orquesta del Conservatorio Superior “Massotti Upcoming commissions for 2020 include a new hyper VR opera directed by Netia Littel” de Murcia. She has been assistant conductor with the teachers Cristóbal Soler Jones, designed by Jo Scotcher and produced by House and Figment and Manuel Galduf in the Young Orchestra of the FSMCV, Philharmonic Orchestra of the Productions. University of Valencia and Jove Orchestra of the Generalitat Valenciana respectively, as well as has been the chief conductor of the Orchestra of the Musical Union of Llíria and www.samanthafernando.com Ateneo Musical del Puerto Orchestra of Valencia where she holds the position of Director of Honor. Within her professional career she has been invited to conduct symphonic groups such as Republic Korean Navy Band, Municipal Symphonic Band of Madrid, Municipal Band of Barcelona, Municipal de de Compostela and Municipal Band of Palma de Mallorca among others. She has been the Chief conductor of the Musical Society La Lira de Vilafamés (Castellón), Allegro Cultural Association of Valencia, Musical Society «L’Artesana» of Catarroja and Unión Musical de Carlet. She was appointed as a member of the jury in different editions of the Provincial Contests of Music Bands of Valencia, Alicante and Castellón, Contest of the Valencian Community, National Contest of Catarroja, National Contest of Colombia-Paipa, Contest of Orchestras of Bankia de the Valencian Community, International Festival of Jeju (South Korea) among others. She is currently the chief conductor of «Lira Castellonera» wind band as well as chief conductor of the Philharmonic Orchestra of the University of Valencia. www.beatrizfernandezaucejo.com 8 9 PARTICIPANT PARTICIPANT STACY HARDY ANNA HIMALI HOWARD PLAYWRIGHT STAGE DIRECTOR SOUTH AFRICA UNITED KINGDOM

Stacy Hardy is a writer, an editor and a teacher. Her writing has appeared in a wide Anna Himali Howard is a stage director and theatremaker. She was associate director range of publications, including Chimurenga, Ctheory, Bengal Lights, Evergreen Review, on Fleabag by Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Drywrite/Soho Theatre international tour) and Drunken Boat, Joyland, Black Sun Lit and New Orleans Review. A collection of her assistant director on Othello, staged by Ellen McDougall (Shakespeare’s Globe) and In short fiction, Because the Night, was published in 2015. She regularly collaborates the Night Time (Before the Sun Rises) by Nina Segal, staged by Ben Kidd (). with Angolan composer Victor Gama on multimedia works that have been performed She was Paines Plough’s trainee director in 2016 and is an alumnus of the Birmingham in Chicago, Berlin, Lisbon, Luanda, Cape Town, amongst other places and her REP Foundry. She was recently a staff director at the National Theatre, London. As experimental performance piece, Museum of Lungs, created together with Laila a director, her work includes I Wanna Be Yours by Zia Ahmed (Paines Plough/Bush Soliman, Neo Muyanga and Nancy Mounir, premiered in Johannesburg (2018), followed Theatre), A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid (Gate Theatre), Albatross by Isley Lynn for by dates in Europe. She is currently working on a research-and-performance-based NEW (RWCMD/Paines Plough/Gate Theatre). As a theatremaker, her work includes Jane collaborative endeavor with anthropologist Kaushik Sunder Rajan and musician Neo Anger (Yard Theatre Live Drafts), mahabharat/a by her and Zarina Muhammad (Camden Muyanga exploring biographies and geographies of breath, through a focus on the People’s Theatre), The Beanfield by Breach Theatre (New Diorama, National tour 2016). colonial histories and postcolonial politics, as well as a libretto for a new opera with composer Bushra El-Turk and director Laila Soliman.

10 11 PARTICIPANT PARTICIPANT DANIELA KERCK CARMEN C. KRUSE STAGE DIRECTOR STAGE DIRECTOR GERMANY AUSTRIA

Daniela Kerck studied stage design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna in the master Carmen C. Kruse is an Austrian German freelance opera director and new works class of Erich Wonder. Already at that time she was awarded various prizes including collaborator. In her immersive and devised work, she focuses on creating places of the Meisterschulpreis of the Academy of Fine Arts. Between 2014 and 2016, she studied encounters. She enjoys leaving conventional spaces and working with living composers opera direction at the University of Music in Karlsruhe in Germany by Andrea Raabe to explore new topics, regions and their people. She studied music and media and Stephan Moesch, where she attended masterclasses in opera directing by Peter management with a focus on “opera and innovation” in Munich and San Diego. Konwitschny and Tatjana Gürbaca. From 2016 to 2019, she assisted directors such as Jossi Wieler, David Alden, Vera Her university studies were followed by assistance periods for Erich Wonder at the Nemirova, Krzysztof Warlikowski and Alex Ollé at the Salzburg Easter Festival, Deutsche Opernhaus Zurich, at the San Francisco Opera, at the state opera Berlin and Munich Oper Berlin, Staatstheater Mainz and Staatsoper while continuing to develop as well as the Teatro della Scala in Milan by directors Luc Bondy, Johannes Schaaf and and direct her own productions. After co-directing Händel’s Rodelinda and Mozart’s Peter Mussbach. Since 2004, she has been working as a freelance stage designer at Così fan tutte, she directed Cavalli’s L’Egisto at the Halifax Summer Opera Festival the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris (Norma), at the Teatro Zarzuela Madrid (Neither), at the 2017. Two devised pieces followed shortly: Ein Käfig voller Diven at Staatstheater Mainz Theatre St Gallen (Hedda Gabler) and at the Latvijas Opera in Riga (Rusalka) and many and SDDS: Defiance with an amateur choir of sixty at Staatsoper Stuttgart. In 2018, others. In 2019, she directed and designed the opera at the Tiroler Festival in Erl. she won the directing competition of the Osterfestspiele Baden-Baden, the Berliner For the season 2020/21 she is preparing the opera Babylon by Jörg Widmann at Philharmoniker and the Deutsche Bank Stiftung and was invited to the 2018 Directors the Hessisches Staatstheater in Wiesbaden. She teaches as Senior Lecturer at the Lab at Lincoln Center Theater, where she directed scenes from A. Washburns I Have Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in the class of Prof. Anna Viebrock. Loved Strangers. In 2019, she won the Cross Award in Verbania and directed the world premieres of Victoria Bonds Clara at the Easter Festival Baden-Baden and Thierry www.danielakerck.com Tidrow’s micro-opera A Safe and Special Place at , Frankfurt. Together with composer Manuel Zwerger she currently develops a community-based new work at Teatro Maggiore, premiering in May 2020. She holds a Directing Scholarship from the Akademie Musiktheater Heute of the Deutsche Bank Stiftung (2017-2019).

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12 13 PARTICIPANT PARTICIPANT PATRICIA MARTINEZ NATALIE MURRAY BEALE COMPOSER CONDUCTOR / SPAIN AUSTRALIA

Patricia Martinez is an Argentinian-Spanish composer, interdisciplinary artist and Born in Australia, Natalie Murray Beale currently lives in the United Kingdom. She performer based in Buenos Aires. Her creative and research interests are focused trained at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and the Guildhall School of Music and on new music composition and interdisciplinary projects, specially contemporary Drama and furthered her studies at the National Opera Studio (London) and with Jorma music theatre, new opera, extended music composition and performance, a sensible Panula. use of technology (electroacoustic and video art), improvisation and choreography- A versatile conductor, she moves fluidly between opera, concerts, film and video game composition. She studied at the Municipal Conservatory of Buenos Aires, the National recordings. As Guest Conductor, she has directed the Philharmonia Orchestra, the University of Quilmes and IRCAM. She holds a doctoral and a master degree in Music Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse, Beethoven Orchester Bonn, the Royal Composition from Stanford University, where Brian Ferneyhough was her advisor. Liverpool Philharmonic, the Malta Philharmonic, the Britten Sinfonia, BBC Concert She has received multiple prizes and accolades and her works have been performed Orchestra, the Orquestra Sinfónica Portuguesa, the Presidential Orchestra of Turkey, by renowned ensembles all around North and South America as well as Europe. Royal Northern Sinfonia and the Chamber Orchestra of London. She has also worked Recently highlights include the premiere of interdisciplinary diptych Short sleep (Breve with the orchestra and chorus of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Luxembourg sueño), commissioned and produced at the Experimental Center of Colón Theater Philharmonic, the Royal Swedish Opera and Bergen Philharmonic. She has conducted with four sold out performances; the premier of Beyond at the Place of Fine Arts in operas for Theater Bonn, the Croatian National Theatre, the , Mexico by Iber-dance/Music; The Frozen Little Girl (La niña helada), a chamber opera Mumbai, Opera Holland Park, the Royal College of Music, contemporary opera group commissioned and premiered during the 48th Ferienkurse für Neue Musik Darmstadt Tête-â-tête, Opera Queensland, award-winning physical theatre company Circa and and selected to be fully produced at the Recoleta Cultural Center in the 2017 season Spitalfields Music Festival. In 2019, her performances of A Flowering Tree by John and then at the International New Opera Festival of Buenos Aires; Espacio ausente Adams made Limelight Magazine’s Best Opera list, she curated and presented the for 14 speakers, lights and voice commissioned by Cervantes National Theatre. Last programme ‘Inside Music’ for BBC Radio 3 and also featured on Classic FM’s Full Works season her micro-opera 2001 (prizewinner of the International Stanisław Moniuszko Concert Series, live from the Barbican, conducting a world premiere by Joby Talbot. Composers’ Competition) was staged at the Polish National Opera in Warsaw. Further achievements include a Royal Philharmonic Society Award for her performances Since 1990 she was artistic director, founder member and performer of different of the new opera We Are Shadows and a BAFTA nomination, music category, for new music and experimental ensembles in Buenos Aires, Paris and Virginia. She is the video game score Alien:Isolation. She was a BBC Performing Arts Fellow in 2015 currently a professor of Composition at National University of Quilmes, at the Superior and was selected the same year by the Dallas Opera for the inaugural Institute for Conservatory of Music of Buenos Aires City as well as an external tutor at the Doctoral Women Conductors. Her 2019/2020 season featured engagements with Symphony program in Music Composition at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Her Nova Scotia, Royal Academy Opera, Ulster Orchestra, Ensemble Contrechamps and works were published by Melos Editions, Babel Scores, Casa de las Américas, Innova, Orchestre de chambre de Genève. She has assisted world-leading conductors Esa- Wergo, 80 Mundos, CICTeM and Ein Klan Records. She is the Artistic Director and Pekka Salonen, Ingo Metzmacher and Jérémie Rhorer. She was Assistant Conductor Founder of Compañía Helada (Frozen Company). at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence for four seasons (Mahagonny, Oedipus Rex, Symphony of Psalms, Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Le nozze di Figaro) and for the Opéra national www.patriciamartinez.com.ar de Paris, the Théâtre des Champs-Elysees and the Wiener Festwochen. As a chorus director, she has also collaborated with Valery Gergiev, Sir Colin Davis, Marin Alsop, Daniele Gatti and the London Symphony Chorus. She is a professor at the Royal College of Music (London) and Creative Director of Independent Opera at Sadler’s Wells, where she is committed to supporting emerging opera artists, developing new productions and commissioning composers.

www.murraybeale.com

14 15 PARTICIPANT PARTICIPANT SILVINA PERUGLIA HELENA RÖHR CONDUCTOR STAGE DIRECTOR ARGENTINA / SPAIN SWEDEN

Silvina Peruglia completed her Master in Orchestral Conducting at the Haute École de Helena Röhr has been working actively in the opera in Sweden since 1995, first Musique de Genève with Laurent Gay. Previously, she studied at the National University as assistant director in numerous productions all over Sweden. Since 2005, she of Arts in Buenos Aires. is a full time director, the first many years only directing opera and musical, with She has recently been selected as one of the twenty finalists for the 56th Besançon productions at Malmö Opera, Norrlandsoperan, Vadstena Akademien and Vietnam International Competition for Young Conductors. She participated in Masterclasses National Opera amongst others. Since 2012, she has worked within theatre and music with conductors Marin Alsop, Sian Edwards, Eiji Owe, Johannes Schlaefli, Jaap Van theatre as a playwright, dramaturge and director at theaters as Malmö Stadsteater, Zweeden and Julien Salemkour among others. She has been the recipient of the Norrbottensteatern, Teater InSite, Moomsteatern, Månteatern amongst others. The last “Bourse d’excellence” of the HEM- Fondation Wilsdorf, the Gertrud Rüegg Stiftung few years, she has developed and directed more than five newly composed chamber Stipendium and the Mozarteum Argentino Scholarship among others. operas in Sweden with composers as Christofer Elgh, Daniel Hjorth, Marie Samuelsson In 2018, she is invited by Eufonia Bordeaux to conduct the Paukenmesse by Haydn with and Stefan Klaverdal. To tell new stories on stage is an important and essential part of musicians of l’Orchestre national Bordeaux Aquitaine at the Bordeaux Cathedral. As her creativity. She is also a singer and with that comes a deep understanding for the for her operatic experience, since 2012, she assumed the music direction of different work of the singer. opera projects, such as Die Fledermaus (2017), Così fan tutte (2016), F. Moreno’s Luisa Fernanda (2015), (2014), G. Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore (2012). As assistant www.helenarohr.com conductor, she has the opportunity to work in several opera productions, such as Das Reihngold and Die Walküre in 2018 at the Grand Théâtre de Genève assisting Georg Fritzsch. In 2015, she assisted Antonio Pappano with the Orchestra dell’ Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecila at Teatro Colón. She also worked as assistant conductor in the Opera production of La Rosa by Martín Matalón and at Teatro Avenida as assistant of Carlos Vieu in the 2012 production. She has performed with a wide breadth of orchestras, including the Orchestre de chambre de Genève, the Gstaad Conducting Academy Orchestra of the Yehudi Menuhin Festival, the Orchestre régional de Normandie, the Pazardzhik Symphony Orchestra, the Orquesta Sinfónica de Santa Fe (Argentina), the Orquesta Sinfónica de Entre Ríos and the Orquesta Sinfónica del Estado de Sao Paulo (Brasil) among others. www.silvinaperuglia.com

16 17 CRÉDITS PHOTOS PARTICIPANT Katie Mitchell © Stephen Cummiskey Beatriz Aucejo Fernández © Michal Novak SITA THOMAS Carmen C. Kruse © C. Vladar Patricia Martinez © Barbara Scotto STAGE DIRECTOR Natalie Beale Murray © Chris Gloag

UNITED KINGDOM Création graphique – Irma Boom Exécution graphique – Laurie Wagner

Sita Thomas is a United Kingdom-based director and is a member of Jette Parker’s directors programme at the Covent Garden. She is a creative associate at the Watford Palace Theatre, has worked as associate director for Out of Joint, Kali and National Youth Theatre and was trainee artistic director at the Bush Theatre. She holds a PhD examining culturally diverse Shakespearean performance (University of Warwick) and a Masters in movement direction (Royal Central School of Speech and Drama) both funded by Arts and Humanities Research Council. She runs Tamasha’s directors programme and recently directed a site-specific audio drama We Are Shadows: Brick Lane for the company. She has received funding from Arts Council of Wales, MGCfutures, National Theatre Wales and Jerwood Bursaries for the development of her latest production Queer Tales, a verbatim inspired LGBT+ play with music. She was assistant director to Jude Kelly on Bernstein’s Mass at the Royal Festival Hall conducted by Marin Alsop. She was staff director at the National Theatre and has assisted at Theatre Royal Stratford East, Royal Court and Southbank Centre. She also works as a movement director, film maker and presenter of Channel 5’s milkshake!.

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